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Author : G.J. Barker-Benfield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135959869
Now a classic in the field, The Horrors of the Half-Known Life is an important foundational text in the construction of masculinity, female identity, and the history of midwivery.
Author : Joan Givner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110450645
Fiction. Thanks to advances in biotechnology, the female protagonists of HALF KNOWN LIVES experiment with a fine upstanding citizen of their prairie city. They take Max Hoffman hostage, impregnate him, and keep him prisoner for the duration of the pregnancy. This mordant novel traces the consequences of the experiment to the end of the characters' lives. Joan Givner is a subtle writer whose stories work their way into your psyche so quietly you hardly notice -- until you reach the last few lines and then wish they could somehow continue. You've become completely enmeshed in her characters and their lives -- The Globe and Mail. By the author of THIRTY-FOUR WAYS OF LOOKING AT JANE EYRE, also available from SPD.
Author : Beryl Satter
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1999-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0520927176
The New Thought Movement was an enormously popular late nineteenth-century spiritual movement led largely by and for women. Mary Baker Eddy's Christian Science is but one example of the fascinating range of these groups, which advocated a belief in mind over matter and espoused women's spiritual ability to purify the world. This work is the first to uncover the cultural implications of New Thought, embedding it in the intellectual traditions of nineteenth-century America, and illuminating its connections with the self-help and New Age enthusiasms of our own fin-de-siècle. Beryl Satter examines New Thought in all its complexity, presenting along the way a captivating cast of characters. In lively and accessible prose, she introduces the people, the institutions, the texts, and the ideas that comprised the New Thought movement. This fascinating social and intellectual history explores the complex relationships among social reform, alternative religion, medicine, and psychology which persist to this day.
Author : Karen Halttunen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0674003845
Karen Halttunen explores the changing view of murder from early New England sermons read at the public execution of murderers, through the nineteenth century, when secular and sensational accounts replaced the sacred treatment of the crime, to today's true crime literature and tabloid reports.
Author : G.J. Barker-Benfield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135959852
Now a classic in the field, The Horrors of the Half-Known Life is an important foundational text in the construction of masculinity, female identity, and the history of midwivery.
Author : Laurence Talairach-Vielmas
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0754660346
Laurence Talairach-Vielmas explores Victorian representations of femininity in fairy tales and sensation novels by authors such as George MacDonald, Lewis Carroll, Christina Rossetti, Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and Charles Dickens. In the clash between fantasy and reality, these authors create a new type of realism that exposes the normative constraints imposed to contain the female body, and illuminates the tensions underlying the representation of the Victorian ideal.
Author : Phyllis L. Brodsky
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-14
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : UOM:39015074227870
"From pre-classical to present times, this work describes childbirth practices as they have developed through the ages. It critiques the evolution of modern midwifery and obstetrics, focusing especially on how, why and when the process of childbirth became an increasingly sterile, male-dominated, and medically oriented event."-- Provided by publisher.
Author : Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Cookery
ISBN : UOM:39015081712930
Author : Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015081712997
Author : G. J. Barker-Benfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Gynecology
ISBN : OCLC:748839740
Author : Edward Wallerstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Circumcision
ISBN : UCSC:32106010145172
Author : Hanya Yanagihara
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780804172707
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.
Author : Jo Freeman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UCSC:32106001053807
Author : Ronald Goldman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0964489538
CIRCUMCISION: THE HIDDEN TRAUMA is the first intensive exploration of the unrecognized psychological and social aspects of this increasingly controversial American cultural practice. The book has been endorsed by dozens of professionals in psychology, psychiatry, child development, pediatrics, obstetrics, childbirth education, sociology, and anthropology, including Ashley Montagu, Christiane Northrup, Warren Farrell, Sheila Kitzinger, Sam Keen, and Penelope Leach. Without much knowledge, the American public generally assumes that our cultural practice of circumcision is a trivial and benign procedure. Plain facts and research results conflict with these beliefs and raise serious questions. Dr. Goldman's application of psychological and social research coherently explains both the tenacity of the practice and the contradictory information and beliefs about it. After a review of the surprising abilities of infants and their responses to circumcision pain, the long-term psychological effects of circumcision are examined from the perspectives of both traditional and innovative psychological theories. We learn that circumcision has potential effects not only on men and sexuality, but also on mother-child relationships, male-female relationships, and societal traits and problems. The text is supported with clinical reports, interviews, surveys, and thorough documentation. CIRCUMCISION: THE HIDDEN TRAUMA identifies an overlooked source of early pain and points us in the direction of both healing and preventing this pain. It is of particular interest to men who seek to explore their sexuality and deepen self-awareness; women who want to understand men better; parents and children's advocates; childbirth educators and allied workers; and mental health, medical, and academic professionals. The book has wide appeal because, more generally, it is about trusting our instincts, questioning some of our cultural values and assumptions, and reflecting on who we are and who we can be as individuals and as a society. Ronald Goldman, Ph.D., is a psychologist, educator, and executive director of the Circumcision Resource Center in Boston (www.circumcision.org), a nonprofit educational organization. He gives lectures and seminars on the psychological and social aspects of circumcision and provides consultation to expectant parents and circumcised men. Dr. Goldman has been a featured guest on local and national radio and television shows and has been cited in numerous newspapers and periodicals.
Author : Theodore L. Gross
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015002671439
